Many businesses rely on the proper preservation of products such as vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, and even pharmaceuticals in their daily operations. This requires refrigerated facilities tailored to each stage of the process, from transport to storage. This article outlines the key components of these installations.
Cold storage rooms, freezing tunnels, temperature-controlled rooms, preservation chambers, and other similar facilities all operate on the same principle: a hermetically sealed space that maintains controlled temperature, humidity, atmosphere, and gas levels using various equipment and measuring instruments. The type of materials stored dictates the necessary design and components—whether it’s a refrigeration, freezing, or atmospheric control facility. These facilities need components that maintain a properly insulated and airtight space to produce artificial cold for cooling and preserving products, minimizing heat exchange and maintaining environmental values through an architecture that minimizes temperature loss.
Types of Cold Storage Rooms
The required components and their technical specifications depend on the product, the stage of the process, and internal and external conditions. Each business will have specific needs. Generally, cold storage rooms are divided into three main groups:
- Preservation or Positive Chambers: These maintain an internal temperature between 0°C and 10°C. Primarily used for storing fruits, vegetables, fresh fish, flowers, meat, or medicines.
- Refrigeration Chambers: Maintain a controlled internal temperature always above the freezing point of water (0°C).
- Freezing Chambers: Maintain an internal temperature below the freezing point (0°C).
Each type has subdivisions adapted to storage needs, preservation requirements, traffic flow, personnel and equipment circulation, frequency of opening, and external contact, among other factors.
Key Components of a Cold Storage Room
While cold storage rooms vary in sophistication, size, and function, they all share basic components: temperature-control panels, air compressors, refrigerant evaporators, refrigerant condensers, expansion valves, ventilation and air extraction systems, and airtight industrial doors with no thermal leaks.
Components based on Cold Storage Room Type
Different cold storage room types require different components for optimal efficiency, depending on the process, product, circulation, and external climate, among other factors.
These components may include:
- Controlled-access entry doors
- High-speed doors
- Sandwich-type refrigeration panels for roofs and walls
- Sanitary profiles for hygiene and to prevent dirt accumulation
- Sanitary baseboards to prevent accidental damage to refrigeration panels
- Other sanitary PVC accessories (e.g., corners, angles)
- Aluminum omega profiles for roof support
Cold Storage Room Doors
If you’re looking for enclosures for temperature-controlled facilities, contact our experts. We will advise you on the type of industrial refrigeration door best suited to your facility’s specifications, including custom manufacturing options.